Line Out - Comments on Pole Vs. Pole - The Giant's Cox http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/03/pole_vs_pole_the_giants_cox Doug Cox, owner and founder of Poster Giant, who had a gun pulled on him while postering says they aren’t the evil empire everyone thinks they are. You want to hate Poster Giant, but after talking with Doug, you... Copyright 2008 Fri, 16 Mar 2007 12:53:48 -0800 Wed, 28 Mar 2007 05:02:49 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Levislade I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt on most of that, but as to "obeying the law" . . . so, they've never pasted posters up on poles, making them impossible to remove? They always use staples or tape? I am skeptical.

]]> Levislade http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/03/pole_vs_pole_the_giants_cox#c671949 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/03/pole_vs_pole_the_giants_cox#c671949 Business Fri, 16 Mar 2007 12:59:22 -0800 Comment by al Let's have a Poster Giant / Midget conference. Who should I believe?

I think they both just cover everyone else's shit and don't care.

Do they know who pulled the gun yet?

I'd be interested to know who that was and who he's with.

]]> al http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/03/pole_vs_pole_the_giants_cox#c671995 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/03/pole_vs_pole_the_giants_cox#c671995 Business Fri, 16 Mar 2007 13:42:12 -0800 Comment by Hillbilly Doug is completely full of shit. The only posters that are on poles are the ones put up by Poster Giant. All other posters are ripped down or covered up. The problem is that Poster Giant has a monopoly on postering. They get TOO much business. If Doug were smart he would focus on other guerrilla marketing techniques as well as postering, in order to free up the poles for the public to use therefore eliminating the constant hatred directed at PG. Instead his business only focuses on postering which forces them to be constantly out tearing down and putting up posters. Doug is also a very vindictive business owner who WILL tear down your posters if he is not getting your business. This is a fact. Don't believe his boo-hoo poor me bullshit.

]]> Hillbilly http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/03/pole_vs_pole_the_giants_cox#c672013 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/03/pole_vs_pole_the_giants_cox#c672013 Business Fri, 16 Mar 2007 14:03:21 -0800 Comment by al Hillbilly,

You aren't packing heat are you?

]]> al http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/03/pole_vs_pole_the_giants_cox#c672027 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/03/pole_vs_pole_the_giants_cox#c672027 Business Fri, 16 Mar 2007 14:16:43 -0800 Comment by hillfish Yeah, I bet Poster Midget aren't the saints they say they are.

]]> hillfish http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/03/pole_vs_pole_the_giants_cox#c672037 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/03/pole_vs_pole_the_giants_cox#c672037 Business Fri, 16 Mar 2007 14:26:21 -0800 Comment by Whatevs They're both retarded. Who still goes to sows based on seeing some crappy poster?

]]> Whatevs http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/03/pole_vs_pole_the_giants_cox#c672043 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/03/pole_vs_pole_the_giants_cox#c672043 Business Fri, 16 Mar 2007 14:33:12 -0800 Comment by Eric Grandy Totally, if I want to see a sow, I'll check my farmer's almanac, not some crappy poster.

]]> Eric Grandy http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/03/pole_vs_pole_the_giants_cox#c672074 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/03/pole_vs_pole_the_giants_cox#c672074 Business Fri, 16 Mar 2007 15:04:31 -0800 Comment by Jerk Hey, don't knock the posters Eric, sometimes if you go to the advertised show you'll see plenty of sows...

]]> Jerk http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/03/pole_vs_pole_the_giants_cox#c672078 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/03/pole_vs_pole_the_giants_cox#c672078 Business Fri, 16 Mar 2007 15:13:53 -0800 Comment by hillfish No, it's all cocks and pole on posers at the sows.

]]> hillfish http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/03/pole_vs_pole_the_giants_cox#c672085 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/03/pole_vs_pole_the_giants_cox#c672085 Business Fri, 16 Mar 2007 15:20:14 -0800 Comment by Aaro)))n Edge -- i think companies are doing just what they should: providing a service to all of us lazy band members, too-old-to-post wannabe rockers and club promoters. my hat is off to both groups (and all those who work on their own as well). it's a hard job and surely no fun. without poster-posting bipeds, us music-making types are only good in a practice space without power and without fans to see/hear us.

]]> Aaro)))n Edge http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/03/pole_vs_pole_the_giants_cox#c672098 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/03/pole_vs_pole_the_giants_cox#c672098 Business Fri, 16 Mar 2007 15:36:24 -0800 Comment by trent moorman I can't wait till they get planes with the long trailing banners. Then they can have air poster banner duels, like Snoopey vs. the Red Baron.

]]> trent moorman http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/03/pole_vs_pole_the_giants_cox#c672110 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/03/pole_vs_pole_the_giants_cox#c672110 Business Fri, 16 Mar 2007 15:54:38 -0800 Comment by trent moorman Oh shit, Snoopy doesn't have an e in it.

]]> trent moorman http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/03/pole_vs_pole_the_giants_cox#c672112 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/03/pole_vs_pole_the_giants_cox#c672112 Business Fri, 16 Mar 2007 15:56:03 -0800 Comment by G$ There are so many bands and shows and only so many poles. Come on dudes, if you see a show that obviously isn't promoted by a postering company and it hasn't happened yet, DON'T FUCKING COVER IT. I know you have a hundred shows to poster for, but you should still try to cover a poster of a show that has already happened bfore you just take the best spot.

Whoever pulled the gun is the biggest dumbass ever. You wanna pull a gun, go save some lady from being robbed or stop the crack deal that's happening right down the street. We're talking about show posters here.

]]> G$ http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/03/pole_vs_pole_the_giants_cox#c672115 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/03/pole_vs_pole_the_giants_cox#c672115 Business Fri, 16 Mar 2007 16:03:30 -0800 Comment by elswinger I've never seen those cool concert posters (Kozik, Coop, etc.)outside of a book or on Ebay or some other expensive online poster shop. Where the hell are those ever on display except art galleries?

This town needs build poster kiosks around town and sell space by the square inch equally to all the poster puter-uppers. Revenue should go to the arts.

]]> elswinger http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/03/pole_vs_pole_the_giants_cox#c672154 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/03/pole_vs_pole_the_giants_cox#c672154 Business Fri, 16 Mar 2007 16:28:04 -0800 Comment by vote elswinger Elswinger has a very good idea with the poster kiosks.

Who would regulate them? Where would they put them? How would you make it so that the posters didn't get covered by someone that didn't pay for space?

Revenue going to "the arts" seems iffy.

We could get the guy w/ the gun to guard them all.

]]> vote elswinger http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/03/pole_vs_pole_the_giants_cox#c672273 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/03/pole_vs_pole_the_giants_cox#c672273 Business Fri, 16 Mar 2007 18:10:07 -0800 Comment by billy i tear down posters of bands i don't like.

]]> billy http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/03/pole_vs_pole_the_giants_cox#c672278 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/03/pole_vs_pole_the_giants_cox#c672278 Business Fri, 16 Mar 2007 18:21:57 -0800 Comment by Fuck Those Punks (With My Fake Leg) PG are snitches. I would shoot those fucking pussies if I thought they wouldn't tell on me. OK, I know guns are bad. I would beat them with my fake leg.

]]> Fuck Those Punks (With My Fake Leg) http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/03/pole_vs_pole_the_giants_cox#c673264 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/03/pole_vs_pole_the_giants_cox#c673264 Business Sun, 18 Mar 2007 03:06:18 -0800 Comment by claire If you ever use any of these services you should notice, if it is a cool poster, that they WILL show up on Ebay, at $10-15 bucks a pop. Yep, you give them 100 to post, they will put up may 30 and keep the rest and sell them on Ebay. So you are paying them to rip you off. What a great scam!

]]> claire http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/03/pole_vs_pole_the_giants_cox#c673407 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/03/pole_vs_pole_the_giants_cox#c673407 Business Sun, 18 Mar 2007 10:38:26 -0800 Comment by A-Train Belive me, I'd love to bitch about posters being torn as much as the next guy, but it's just going to happen, and there's nothing anybody can do about it. Poster etiquette (to the extent that it ever existed) is dead, but it's not exclusively the fault of either of these companies.

Secondly, I've done business with PG quite a few times, and after seeing their operation, anyone would realize how ridiculous it is to accuse them of being "the man" in this situation. For the record, I've tried to use PM a couple times, but their slowness/complete lack of communication was too frustrating.

#16: Actually, people like you are a much bigger problem. That kind of maliciousness for its own sake is pretty fucking stupid.

]]> A-Train http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/03/pole_vs_pole_the_giants_cox#c674085 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/03/pole_vs_pole_the_giants_cox#c674085 Business Mon, 19 Mar 2007 12:58:32 -0800 Comment by shakira i have never seen such big giant posters as before well its a new good idea in posters

]]> shakira http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/03/pole_vs_pole_the_giants_cox#c684807 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/03/pole_vs_pole_the_giants_cox#c684807 Business Wed, 28 Mar 2007 05:02:49 -0800